How to distinguish crocodile ascarides
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Year of publication | 2012 |
Type | Conference abstract |
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Citation | MAŠOVÁ, Šárka, Vlastimil BARUŠ, Mária SEIFERTOVÁ and Miloslav JIRKŮ. How to distinguish crocodile ascarides. In X. české a slovenské parazitologické dny. 2012. ISBN 978-80-210-5862-0. |
Description | After parasitological dissection of one specimen of Nile crocodile, Crocodylus niloticus (Laurenti, 1768), from the Lake Turkana (Kenya), was revealed the presence of two ascaridoid nematodes referable to genus Dujardinascaris Baylis, 1947. They were identified on the basis of original descriptions and our key to species as Dujardinascaris madagascariensis Chabaud et Caballero, 1966 and D. dujardini (Travassos, 1920), according their morphology. |
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